Each Christmas, 2ch otaku start a “Supervise female seiyuu to make sure they aren’t spending time with a man” thread, in which they pore over seiyuu blogs for suspect updates, check for possible alibi, and examine the dates of any photographs posted to make sure they are genuine evidence of a Christmas spent alone.

This year’s targets, courtesy of 2ch:

14 ：以下、名無しにかわりましてVIPがお送りします：2009/12/24(木) 02:14:29.54 ID:OAYc8ON00

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平野綾 http://www.hiranoaya.com/cgi-bin/diary/sfs6_diary/ Exifあり

加藤英美里 http://blog.livedoor.jp/clovercafe/ Exifあり

小清水亜美 http://blog.excite.co.jp/amisketch/ Exifあり

井上麻里奈 http://yaplog.jp/marinavi/ Exifあり

伊藤かな恵 http://kana2542.jugem.jp/ Exifあり

竹達彩奈 http://ameblo.jp/strawberry-ayana/ Exifなし

伊瀬茉莉也 http://blog.excite.co.jp/sapphire-marin Exifあり

MAKO http://www.spacecraft.co.jp/mako/honey_diary/ Exifあり

悠木碧 http://aoitown.com/cgi-local/aoiblog/diary.cgi Exifあり

佐藤聡美 http://osatomi.jugem.jp/ Exifあり

日笠陽子 http://blog.livedoor.jp/hiyonikki/ Exifなし

タレコミの可能性のあるブログ

三瓶由布子 http://blog.excite.co.jp/yukobako/ Exifあり

廣田詩夢 http://hirotashion.jugem.jp/ Exifあり

白石涼子 http://ryo-ko-pentan.jugem.jp/ Exifなし

阿澄佳奈 http://yaplog.jp/asumibiyori/ Exifあり

門脇舞以 http://ameblo.jp/maitablog/ Exifなし

Of the various seiyuu monitored, it appears Ayana Taketatsu (Azusa) and Yoko Hikasa (Mio) are lacking proper EXIF authentication of their whereabouts this Christmas. Aki Toyosaki (Yui) has been spotted manipulating the EXIF data of a photograph to make it appear recent, despite it being identified as older.

The reason for the EXIF data checking is that the EXIF timestamp added to images by digital cameras will give away a photo taken before it was actually posted, in case seiyuu have the gall to employ subterfuge in defence of their privacy.

Naturally, a sufficiently savvy seiyuu (or more likely their agency) could simply manipulate the EXIF data to give an appropriate alibi, so fans also look for additional cross-site corroboration where possible.

As 2ch puts it, this thread is “90% virgin, 100% stalker.”

However, all this stalkerish suspicion is not entirely a product of obsessive otaku delusion.

In 2007, famed bikini model Aya Hirano made a series of Christmas updates to her blog in which she emphasised that she spent Christmas Eve, in Japan largely a romantic evening for couples, at a party which was “nothing but women.”

The updates were made on Christmas Eve, but suspicious (just why is perhaps better not wondered about) otaku examined the EXIF timestamps on the photographs she uploaded – the photos were actually taken on the 21st.

This led to the inevitable suspicion that she had made an update specifically for the purpose of deceiving her creepy fans into thinking she was safely at a chaste female-only party, rather than happily in the bed of some discrete boyfriend as fans subsequently suspected.

It seems believing their “idol” is a perpetually chaste virgin is so important to idol otaku that seiyuu must now manufacture forensically perfect evidence of them being free of insidious male company at every likely romantic occasion, lest 2ch and their delightful fans brand them strumpets and run their names through the muck…

Don’t tell me the Otaku are going to become real Gynecologist so they can learn to test for true virgin status or not and also become the Doctors of the seiyuu of their choice as well? Hmm, now theres a job I should have went after myself. A DR Gynecologist specialist…

Problem is, you can’t confirm virginity with medical expertise. The presence or absence of a hymen is a poor indicator since some girls are born without a hymen and others lose theirs due to various factors including but not up to gym workouts.

I’m guessing you’re a “meninist”, lol. Thinking that people are whores and feminazis for thinking this is creepy, so I guess men aren’t allowed to respect women either, huh?
I bet if it were a bunch of male VA y’all would be like “WHOA, WHOA, STOP THE PRESSES AND GET THESE BITCHES OFF THE MEN” but nahhh it’s okay because they have vaginas <:D
Take off your fedora and get laid ya freak.

I see the term “whore” throw around a lot and am led to understand that otaku categorise women i the following manner.
If she has romantic relations with a man or any number of men she is a whore. The only way she remains chaste and pure is if she remains lonely forever or has a relationship with the otaku in question. The latter of course is an impossibility in this universe and even if it were, all the other fans would call her a whore because she is not with them. Therefore the only way these otaku can be happy is if they collaborate in ensuring she stays as lonely as them.

I don’t really give a shit whether a voice actress has taken 1000 dicks the size of my forearm — what I do care about is that she can actually act and imbue the character with emotion and personality so that I am entertained.

Though I stopped many years ago, I will forever more never EVER refer to myself as otaku.
If they are with their boyfriends, that is not whoring around.
Why must these seiyuu be forced to spend a lonely and desolate christmas by themselves just because that’s what their fans choose to do?
I do agree that idols should be good role models, but these seiyuu are mostly idols to GROWN MEN. It’s not young girls who would be seeing that going out on a date with your boyfriend is bad on christmas.

@ anon 14:54, as our genius anon said this is ALL about customers so if in this case the FEMALE customers don’t care about their Male seiyuus being non-virgin and they keep supporting them then it’s their decision xD

No son, but being a seiyuu is equivalent to being an actress or singer or anything else where your career depends on one key factor: The consumers.

The consumers of animes obviously have some values and want voice actors who are pure and innocent, if you can’t keep up to those standards you can’t be a seiyuu, simple as that. It’s not like someone is forcing them to do it, they are doing it because they want to. And they also know what it means being a seiyuu, so if they then whore around they are practically not only being whores but also lying and being deceitful.

In the end, they all depend on popularity and the consumer, the consumers are otaku and they want sweet innocent girls and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Those are all facts.

I don’t know what kind of bullshit your brain has been fed with but the world doesn’t work how you think it works. Just stop attacking otaku just because your life is boring and bland. Go do something else, like play football or go to the disco or whatever the fuck is in now.

It’s part of the job. If they can’t be pure and behave properly they shouldn’t be seiyuus in the first place. Nothing wrong there. You fagging up this place with your moralfaggotry, on the other hand, is wrong. Go to christians.org or facebook.com or something if you can’t handle reality, moralfag.

Hell yeah! Well it doesn’t matter to me even if Aya Hirano one day suprises the world that she got knocked up by that “discrete boyfriend”, she’s still forever will be Haruhi Suzumiya to me… That and the fact that even married seiyuus makes great characters….

A fan is someone who worshippes and supports his/her idol and wishes him/her the best in private and profession…

Idols aren’t there to fill the meaningless lives of some loosers but to provide us their talent to make our everydays a bit happier…

They should have BF/GF, go on dates and behave less proper if they want, I would be happy to see them on the sides of their most beloved…:3
Like Miyavi and Melody and their cutie pie daughter, Airi ( Miyavi fangirl here X3 )!!

I agree with the latter part of your comment, “A fan is someone who worshippes and supports his/her idol and wishes him/her the best in private and profession.”

I disagree with the first part, though.

If someone *worships* another human being, then the worshipper is not a “fan”; instead, they are a “religious cultist” or “fanatic”.

It’s been observed that members of “normal” religions tend toward one of two reactions when members of their clergy are discovered doing things they should not (raping altar boys, etc.):

* Go into “cover-up” mode, “for the good and reputation of the church”, blaming the victims, supressing evidence, etc.; or

* Go into outraged “burn the bastard(s)” mode against the perpetrator(s).

It seems the creepy-stalker types tend toward the second reaction, even when the “offense” is the idol doing something normal for all humans, but which “breaks” the creepy-stalker’s fantasy.

(And if they behave that freakily and controllingly toward a woman they don’t personally know, there’s no way they’re gonna get a real GF. Most real women would be turned off and freaked out by that kind of behavior.)

Agree.
Creepy People would forget about her the moment they’d get a girl for them going. THAT is heartless. And who will be there if Marina gets older or she’d lose her beauty? Surely not this stalker bunch.

The one thing that makes me proud of otaku is that we are often intelligent, skilled, and organized…of course, we use it all on shit like this and sitting around analyzing anime. A few good otaku looked in a room without access to moe would solve world hunger if you promised a pic of mio for it…

It’s stuff like this that makes me start to hate my fellow fans. These seiyuu are ordinary people deserving of a normal life without the shit stirred up by these sick fucks who have nothing better to do than make these poor girls’ life a living hell.

LOLZ at the otakus who believe that there are still women who are virgin after 16 or 20…. Such naive people should have their brains examined…. Ok, so there MIGHT, but the odds are 30 to 35%, read the manga REC and you’ll know why….

Good to know there is at least some sense left in the world. If a girl/woman decides to become a seiyuu she practically decides becoming an idol for millions of people. That brings great responsibility, and they can’t just behave however they want. Imagine they fucked around and behaved like some whores. What kind of influence would that have on the teenage girls? Very bad influence. This is something very serious.

If they want to be whores= Be whores, no one cares, but if you want to be idols then, for christ’s sake, be proper idols. I’m glad these young gentlemen from 2chan fight so selflessly for a better world.

There’s a difference between what you call “being a whore” and being a bad role model, and being a normal person spending Christmas with a loved one. I guess a lot of otaku don’t understand what that’s like, to have a loving relationship and want to spend time together. What’s wrong with that? That’s not being a bad role model.

Whore’s and relationships are different things. Seiyuu themselves are humans and deserve their own rights in relationships. Stalking them to ensure they are not spending time with men is plain stupid. It’s their choice (especially if they want to jeopardize their own career).

he makes a good point about public figures. you wouldn’t want obama to get caught with crap like clinton did, or having paris hilton and kim kardashian as any form of influence in your or your loved one’s lives.

> That shut her up? Boy she is stupid to back down because of such a moronic analogy. The thing is we aren’t keys and locks. We are all humans regardless of our sex and sexual identity.

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Calm down, it’s called a joke! It was meant to make cynical fun of the topic, kind of make it ridiculous. If you’d come up with this kind of quote seriously in the developed word, most woman would probably just smack your balls and resume whatever they are doing.. without you.

> Typical idiot men thinking that women that have sex are whores and men that have sex are normal.

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I read a funny explanation for this one once:

“I just had an argument with a girl I know. She was saying how it’s unfair that if a guy fucks a different girl every week, he’s a legend, but if a girl fucks just two guys in a year, she’s a slut. So in response I told her that if a key opens lots of locks, then it’s a master key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it’s a shitty lock. That shut her up.”

Whoah… Are you folks serious? You must be those people who place women on a pedestal. Women fuck, fart, poo and pretty much everything a guy does. They aren’t angels, just humans. They have lives with their family members and lovers just like anyone else. Why is being in a relationship equivalent to being a whore? And anyway, they are just voice actors who voice characters. Awesome that they do a good job, why care who they screw around with.

Err, having a date on christmas is not whoring around. It is true that Idols must be aware that they are making money by tricking the creepy bunch (which is getting tricked willingly), but don’t they even get a bit of a say in their private life and a day or two free like any other working person?

Oh, and it is IDOLS, not seiyuu. She may be both, but this matters the idol part of her, not the seiyuu one. It would be sad if people start to think that a seiyuu needs to be an idol to become popular in anime-business…